Improvement in washing-machines



A. J2 ROGERS:

lmpr ovement in Washing Machines.

No. 123,512. Patented Feb. 6,1872.,

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ANDREW J. ROGERS, OF OHURGHVILLE, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 123,512, datedFebruary 6, 1872.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ANDREW J. Roe-Ens, of Churchville, in the county ofAugusta and in the State of Virginia, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in \Vashing- Machines; and do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of referencemarked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a washingmachine, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionapperta-ins to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation,referrin g to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of my machine, and Fig. 2 isan end view, showing the upper portion of the same.

A represents a beam, of any suitable dimensions, attached to andsupported at each end by two legs, B B, which are braced and connected,in any convenient manner, at or near their lower ends, to form a firmframe, in which my washingmachine is suspended. From the beam A twoarms, 0 0, project vertically downward, and on the sameis formed therubber, consisting, on both sides, of the vertical and inclinedlongitudinally-corrugated surfaces 1) D, respectively, and the upperinclined flatsurface E, as shown in Fig. 1. G rep resents thewashingmachine box, constructed substantially in the form shown in thedrawing, and provided in the center of each side with a metal strap, a,which extends a short distance above the edges of the box. In holes inthe upper ends of these metallic straps to a are passed hooks b b, whichhave screw-threads on their upper ends, and are passed from below upwardthrough the beam A, and are there secured by thumb-nuts cl d, thussuspending the box from the beam A, the arms 0 O and rubber passingdownward into the same. When desired, the box can readily be removed bymerely unscrewing the thumb-nuts cl d. In each end of the box G, isplaced ahorizontally-corruga-ted, curved wash-board, H, with a board, I,at the top. This wash-board and board are secured to bars J J, bent tocorrespond with the shape of the end of the box, so as to lit in thesame. A rocking motion is given to the box G by means of a handle, K, ateach end, or by a lever, arranged in any suitable manner; and, when thusin motion, the clothes are pressed between the stationary rubber in thecenter and the wash-boards at the ends.

The wash-boards, being movable, will, during the motion of the box,slide forward slightly, and thus make them, as it were, elastic, so asto yield to the pressure of the clothes on the stationary rubber. Thewash-boards are readily taken out for cleaning the box.

Lids L L cover the box, as shown.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the stationary rubber D E and the slidingwash-boards H H in the rocking box G, substantially as and for thepurposes herein set forth.

2. The combination of the box G, metallic straps a. a, hooks I) I),cross-beam A, and thumbnuts 61 cl, substantially as and for the purposesherein set forth.

3. The combination of the frame A B, arms G 0, rubber D D E, box G,wash-boards H H, straps to a, hooks b b, and thumb-nuts d d, allconstructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes hereinset forth.

In testimony that I claim theforegoing I have hereunto set my hand this14th day of December, 1871.

A. J. ROGERS.

Witnesses:

G. L. EVERT, A. N. MARE.

